My apologies for resurrecting an old thread.
I have been searching a question regarding the 1797 pattern flags and have been unsuccessful; I may just have been looking in the wrong places.
The question focuses on the white "Colonel's" flags, although I believe a few "Regimental" flags are included.
The White flags have a white Maltese cross with the cartouche in the centre and coloured corners. Some of these corners are a single colour and, therefore, present no problem. My problem is with those where the corners are of two colours.
Typically, illustrations will show the obverse of the flag (i.e. flagstaff to the left) and the arrangement of the colours gets described, using the Tula Musketeers as an example, as "White cross, red/light blue corners – colours given in a clockwise order" (Terence Wise's "Flags of the Napoleonic Wars (2)").
My question is was the reverse of the flag a mirror image of the obverse and the description above now becomes "White cross, red/light blue corners – colours given in an anti-clockwise order", or did the above description apply to the reverse as well, such that both sides would appear identical if laid side by side?
I've saved the link supplied by Oliver Schmidt (many thanks) but the illustrations show only the obverses, so it is difficult to be sure about the reverses without further evidence.
Many suppliers of wargames flags show their very attractive offerings as identical obverse and reverse but I have, some time ago, seen at least one offering where the "mirror-image" approach is used.
To me the mirror image approach seems more logical and that the descriptions applied to the obverses only and not to both sides.
Any comments or pointers in the the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
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